October 2008

eMarketer released a study of large retail operations who have Facebook accounts.
According to the article, “A September 2008 study by Rosetta (formerly Brulant) that focused on the top 100 online retailers in the US found that 59 had a fan page on Facebook, up from 30 in May 2008. Among the 29 who added Facebook [...]

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Warning:  The following video by Mike Michalowicz is educational.  You are about to learn something for nothing.  Ask your doctor if success is right for you.  Side effects can include productivity, business growth, ideas, and in rare cases, jealous family and friends who’d rather you be depressed about everything like they are.  Seek immediate financial [...]

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Google isn’t “hearing” words in audio and video just yet.  Transcribing your podcasts or other audio or video you’ve produced is still the best way to get the words in a format the search engines can understand.
It’s also a darned good way to increase the value of an audio/video product  to have transcriptions accompanying such [...]

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Investment Advice From An Email Friend:

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
If you [...]

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Jerry Hart and I have been conducting a weekly mini-masterminds for quite awhile now. He comes from the corporate side of teaching SEO and social marketing. I, of course, come from the mom and pop side.
Jerry is a superb teacher and thought leader in social marketing and networking. (I have to tell [...]

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Today’s broadcast features new social media sites from Jack and Jim.  Jim brought a lot of toys to play with today, so listen in to pick up some URLS you’re going to want to check out for marketing and even Teen Safety!

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Anatomy of a severely flawed piece of advice
Well folks, it looks like this will be my last blog post ever. Apparently blogging is passe and I didn’t know it. I know this will come as a shock to the thousands of bloggers who read this and many other blogs, but it looks like [...]

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Guest Post By Michel Fortin

An interesting debate is raging among copy writers, web designers and content developers about the differences, if any, between writing copy for the web versus writing content.

According to prolific copywriter Nick Usborne of Excess Voice, a recent survey conducted among the readers of his newsletter of the [...]

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iKarma is a killer app with a simple purpose: Collect and present testimonials and feedback on you, your business, or your products.
After all the complicated communities with groups, forums, blogs, voting, friends and a never ending array of new things any one social media site can do, iKarma is a refreshing, single purpose web [...]

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